Description
This recipe for sausage rolls can be adapted to include your favourite herbs and is quick to make. Party food that everyone will enjoy could not be easier!
Ingredients
- 500g (1 lb.) of sausage mince
- 1 large onion
- 1 heaped teaspoon of mixed herbs (use your favourite herbs)
- ¼ cup of breadcrumbs
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon pepper
- 4 thick slices of white bread
- warm water
- 6 sheets of ready rolled puff pastry
- 1 egg
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 200 °C (400 °F).
- Remove puff pastry sheets from freezer and thaw to room temperature.
- Peel and roughly chop the onion and then give it 2-3 pulses in the food processor (or finely chop or grate it).
- Combine the sausage mince, onion, mixed herbs, breadcrumbs, salt, and pepper in a bowl.
- Cut the crusts off the bread and put it into another bowl and then add just enough warm water to cover the bread – stand for 5 minutes.
- Drain off the excess water from the bread and then gently squeeze the bread while tilting the bowl to remove as much water as possible.
- Add bread to sausage mince mixture and mix thoroughly.
- Use a dessertspoon to place a sausage like strip of the mince mixture along one edge of a sheet of pastry.
- Roll edge of pastry over filling and continue rolling until filling is completely enclosed in the pastry.
- Cut along the edge of the pastry to separate the roll from the remaining pastry.
- Repeat steps 8 – 10 with the remaining pastry and mince mixture.
- Lightly flatten rolls using the back of a knife at 1 cm intervals and then cut the rolls into 2 inch (5 cm) lengths.
- Put rolls onto a lined baking tray and brush with beaten egg.
- Bake rolls at 200 °C for 20 minutes and then reduce heat to 180 °C and cook for a further 10 minutes.
- Cool slightly on tray and then serve.
